Food for thought! One ought to be aware of that drones used in and around wildlife can be dangerous for nature's creatures. Like most technologies, drones can be dual use for good or harm.
This is just one example of what can go awfully wrong:
"... some 3,000 elegant terns abandoned their roughly 2,000 eggs there last month when an illegal drone crashed into their nesting site, just one of four known to scientists. ..."
Then there are the many benefits of using drones:
"... Drones can be fantastic tools for scientific research: They can monitor animals that might be targeted by poachers; they help researchers count caribou; they ferry kakapo semen to scientists in the forest who will artificially inseminate the endangered parrots; they unobtrusively collect snot from whale blowholes to help gather data about whales’ metabolism and stress levels. ..."
"As many as 2,000 elegant tern eggs were abandoned on a nesting island at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach after a drone crashed, scaring off the would-be parents. (California Department of Fish and Wildlife)"
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